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June 12, 1923.

s. OVERGARD AWL Filed March 28. 1922 5cm Overgczrd Patented June 12, 1923..

7 UNITED STATES TET NHL SAM OVERGARD, OF WINIFRED, MONTANA.

AWL.

Application filed March 28, 1922. Serial No. 547,534.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAM OVERGARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at VVinifred, in the county of Fergus and-State of Montana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Awls, of which the followin is a specification.

l y present invention has reference to an awl.

My object is to produce an awl which includes a handle and a needle, the said needle having its ends pointed, formed with shoulders inward of its points and with an eye centrally between the shoulders, while the handle has a socket to receive one of the pointed ends of the needle therein and is provided with means for engaging one of the shoulders of the needle, and whereby the opposite or projecting point of the needle may be forced through leather or other articles to be sewed, after a thread or thong is passed through the eye of the needle, pres-.

sure upon the handle forcing the eye through the article to be sewed, when the holding means for the needle is released and the needle is reversed to receive in the socket thereof the opposite pointed end of the needle to draw the needle entirely through the article being sewed, and again direct the needle through the article when the handle again releases the needle and engages the opposite end thereof and in this manner leather or similar strips may be easily and quickly stitched together.

The drawing which accompanies and which forms part of this specification illustrates a satisfactory embodiment of the improvement reduced to practice, and where- Figure 1 is a side elevationof the improvement, with parts broken away and parts in section.

Figure 2 is a'plan View of the needle.

The handle of my improvement is'indicated broadly by the numeral 1. This handle at one end, has a socket 2. The socket end of the handle is surrounded by a suitable ferrule, and the bore of the socket is flared inwardly from its outer to its inner end.

Passing through a suitable slot or opening in the ferrule 3 there-isthe jaw end 4 of a catch 5. The body of the catch is pivotally secured, as at 6 to the handle, and from its pivot point the catch isprovided with an extension in the nature of atail 7 which is influenced by a ring 8 arranged between the said tail and the handle. I

The needle comprises a member which has both of its ends pointed, asat 9. The pointed ends 9 terminate in shoulders 10. Between the shoulders the needle is flattened, and the said flattened portion'is centrally. provided with aneye 11. Through the eye llthe thread o thong is passed. The shoulders 10 are arranged a distance from the ends of the needle approximately equalling the distance betweenthe jaw end 4 of the catch and the inner'end of the socket 2. In operation, one end of the needle is inserted in the socket and the shouder thereof is engaged by the jaw 4. The handle is thenv other article to be stitched, The central or eye portion of the needle will thus be forced from one to the opposite side of the article. When this is accomplished, a pressure is exerted upon the tail end of the catch to release the jaw thereof from engagement with the first mentioned shoulder of the needle, and the handle is brought to engage with the opposite pointed end of the needle.

The operator now draws upon the handle so that the needle is fully forced through the article, and thereafter again inserts the needle through the article to be stitched until the eye and the thong or cord carried thereby is arranged upon the opposite side of the article. The handle again releases the needle, but is again brought to receive therein the opposite or first mentioned pointed end thereof, and whenthe shoulder i on the said end is gripped by the jaw 4 the needle is again pulled entirely through the article being stitched. This. method is repeated until the stitching operation is com pleted.

Having described the invention, I claim:

In a sewing awl the combination with a handle having an inwardly flared socket at one of its ends, acatch member including a spring influenced jaw entering the 5 socket, said catch including an operating tail arranged exteriorly of the handle, and a needle having its ends pointed, its eenter flattened and provided With an eye and forming shoulders at the terminals of the pointed ends, and said pointed ends designed to he reversely received in the socket ol the handle, and the shoulders thereof engaged by the jaw of the catch, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix n1 signature. 15

SAM OVE GARDi 

